America-Paul Desmond

[00:01.78]"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together" [00:24.18]"I've got some real estate here in my bag" [00:29.87]So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies [00:39.23]And we walked off to look for America [00:47.07]"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh [00:58.68]"Michigan seems like a dream to me now" [01:05.59]It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw [01:10.15]I've gone to look for America [01:17.33]Laughing on the bus [01:20.65]Playing games with the faces [01:22.67]She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy [01:29.67]I said "Be careful his bowtie is really a camera" [01:40.35]"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat" [01:47.00]"We smoked the last one an hour ago" [01:57.82]So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine [02:06.36]And the moon rose over an open field [02:16.43]"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping [02:21.16]I'm empty and aching and I don't know why [02:31.72]Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike [02:36.70]They've all gone to look for America [02:43.01]All gone to look for America [02:49.10]All gone to look for America [02:57.96]by eric 2002